Character Creator & Character Customization (Official Thread)

Just give me this preset. Different eyebrows, different eyecolor and I'm happy not pissed.

Yeah--honestly, that's literally the ONLY hairstyle I have any interest in. At least there were 2 in DAI.

I'm not too bummed about hair this time around, I think those at least are improvement from trilogy. That might be, because I like bob hairstyles, but saw quite many I can pick for my Mandy. Male hairstyles seems bit more limited to me, but at least default Scott's is nice. Of course they could be better and there really could be more options than just 11, that's quite low amount, but style wise I'm not too bothered. Color-wise though I'd have liked option to have dark purple hair, unnatural colors are bit too bright and pastel for what I was thinking of.

What's up with skin tones being so limited for many of the presets? The skin tone the default ryder has isn't in the character creator for many of them, e.g head 8 on the female side.

Well, at least it has physics this time and hair doesn't look like it's glued on like a plastic wig anymore, I guess that's something.

I DON'T EVEN KNOW, YOU GUYS.



You tell me.

that brow line..... I though Neanderthals were extinct

I think your female Ryder looks good by the way though.

What the hell, BioWare?! You make it so hard to support you, sometimes.

They've basically made it impossible to make an attractive caucasian female with the CC. And the fact that this very good preset exists in their game, but only in MP for some bizarre and baffling reason, is just the icing on the cake.

I'm genuinely angry now. Why the hell isn't this preset in the SP game?

Please, everyone who feels the same way, send them tweets about this. If enough people complain I bet they'll add this preset in a patch.

I'm going to be the unpopular opinion and say that IMO I rather like the CC in Andromeda, both compared to ME1/2/3 and DAI. Why?

I'm a person who's bad with CC. I tend to take defaults and make small tweaks to them. One of the most horribly daunting things about DAI was the CC because I'm just not that good at making a face. Honestly, any game with a lot of facial options just results in me making incredibly minor tweaks to presets to try and tip-toe my way into my ideal character.

So for once NOT having to deal with a mess of sliders is reassuring to me that I won't spend a zillion hours pushing sliders a half-centimeter to the left or right and agonizing over which turned out better.

Not that I don't understand the plight of others with regards to the CC, but it's just a relief to me. My only real gripes are:

1) You can't really do fair skin on the presets that you think would allow it because of the skin-tones (Default Scott/Sara seem to be the palest skin tones available)

2) No ability to modify Defaults. Honestly I really like Scott's look, I just wish I could remove the facial stubble.

3) Hair color. I wanted to do a strawberry blonde/auburn look to hair (like myself) but making a redhead seems difficult without doing hair-dye red. Or maybe I just suck at the color wheel business.

Just on the Character Creator, with all the negative feedback do you think Bioware will update it with a patch? Would it be hard to implement?

I'm not too fussed on it but I understand where others are coming from. Just hope they can update it enough to please the fans that are unhappy with it. 

Dad is definitely just tied to the preset, because I have the same Alec and I used the same female preset and default Scott as well. I was a bit surprised as well to see him. It's hilarious - in a 'I want to cry' way - when you realise they limited us this much and still don't get the families right. They should just have let us customise all three really, problem solved.

I really really hate the CC now that I've gone through it. Twice because for some reason my Ryder's mouth ended up much higher than it seemed and it looked awful. The second time it still looked higher up but I gave up at that point.

I ended up just desperately trying to make her look less like a clone of the preset, but it didn't really work. I hadn't designed my Ryder beforehand, but I did have a Hawke (from an Inquisition pt, I love that CC soo much) I kinda wanted to use as a guide, because I'd just presumed the CC would be similar in at least options. But now I just feel stuck with a generic face I feel no real interest in as a character, which is a shame because I like Ryder's lines so far.

And yes the make-up is horrible. Even the 'normal' ones... who puts one colour all over their eyes up to the brow? And the lipstick looks like a sticker.

I went with one of the unnatural hair colours just because we finally could but I agree that the lighter colours look, well, flat almost.

Also I'm fairly certain I spotted a female NPC who looked generated in the CC but had a curly undercut we don't get to use. So maybe there's more like that and it might get patched in? I don't expect much from the patch, because I'm not sure if they can even give us the options we want. (Changing facial features, eyebrows.) But some things should be possible.

Also, that website is a joke. Did they do something for Inquisition like that? Because THOSE characters could look divers AND people were constantly sharing sliders... but here. If you see a picture of a Ryder you like it would take two minutes to recreate them.


(I know this was all negative, but it is a CC thread... I did like the rest of the game, what I saw of it in the trial.)